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Title

Handling instance correspondence in inter-organisational workflows

Author(s)

Zhao, Xiaohui;  Liu, Chengfei;  Yang, Yun;  Sadiq, Wasim

Abstract

As business collaboration involves multiple business processes from different participating organisations, it becomes a challenging issue to manage the complex correspondence between instances of these business processes. Yet very limited support has been provided by inter-organisational workflow research. In this paper, we develop a formal method to specify instance correspondence based on a novel correspondence Petri net model. In this method, cardinality parameters are defined to represent cardinality relationships between collaborating business processes at build time, while correlation structures are designed to characterise correspondence between collaborating business process instances at run time. Corresponding algorithms are also developed to generate the correspondence Petri nets for collaborative business processes, and to trace instance correlation on the fly using the generated Petri nets.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Lecture notes in computer science: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2007), Trondheim, Norway, 11-15 June 2007, Vol. 4495, pp. 51-65

Publication year

2007

Keyword(s)

Administrative data processing;  Algorithms;  Cardinality parameters;  Correspondence Petri net;  Data flow analysis;  Interorganisational workflow management;  Mathematical models;  Petri nets;  Workflow instance correspondence

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

0302-9743 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9783540729877, 3540729879

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72988-4_5

Copyright

Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version of the publication is available at www.springer.com.

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